Word: biru
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...Houston the Celtics must face. On paper, there's no question--the Rockets are 40-42, and the Celtics--62-20--already have 13 green and white banners hanging from the ceiling. The Rockets depend on one big man: the Cettics need Biru, but they have a truly great team. Del Harris sounds like a '50s rock star: Bill Fitch sounds like a basketball coach. And in the Celtic stands there's this man named Red Auerbach. And he'll be sitting in his box during four of the seven games...
...joined forces with Ras Mengesha Seyoum, the deposed governor of Tigre province, which adjoins Eritrea. Mengesha, a distant relative of Haile Selassie, has an armed band of more than 4,000 peasants. Near Menz, some 85 miles north of the capital, two other aristocratic revolutionaries, Merid and Mesfin Biru, recently wiped out a government battalion...
Lord Ever Just. Their feudal rule was especially intricate in Ruanda. At the center stood the great Mwami (king), the absolute Lord Ever Just and descendant of Envoys from Heaven. He ruled through a council of wisemen and a college of Biru (jurists), who were the Keepers of the Fire and of the Royal Drum, the symbol of power...
...southern Luzon Americal Division jungle fighters, veterans of Guadalcanal and Bougainville, seized Capul and Biru, two tiny, strategically important islands dominating San Bernardino Strait, shortest shipping route...
...chee and coffee is kohi, which is as near as the Japanese can come to pronouncing these words. Gas is gasu, tobacco is tobaku and matches are matchi. Even in the country inns, the maid will come running in with a pair of surippa, bedroom slippers. Beer is biru. When you indicate that you want to get out of a bus the conductress cries stoppu to the driver. As you step into the street she shouts after you orai, which stands for "all right" but is actually a form of farewell. In Tokyo the taxis are takuski and the chauffeurs...
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